Making a way out of no way African American women and the second great migration
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi
c2009.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31365978*spi |
| Sumario: | The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in lea. |
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| Descripción Física: | xx, 297 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 271-282) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781604732177 |
